English mania.

I embedded this video, which talks about English as the Lingua Franca of the world and how countries such as China are implementing rather harsh educational policies in order to get their population to learn English. I wish the talk covered the issues in more depth. The scenes of stadiums full of Chinese children choral chanting ideological phrases such as, "I don't ever want to let my country down!", while ostensibly learning English, is frightening to me. The one size fits all mentality of standardised testing (not disimilar to Korean testing) is also a worrying aspect of this issue.